Subject: NA Digest, V. 15, # 02 NA Digest Thursday, January 15, 2015 Volume 15 : Issue 02 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: 2013 Charles Broyden Prize Doubts about Feynman's probabilistic presentation LaTeX source for introductory linear algebra Linear Algebra MOOC to Launch Again NIST announces DLMF Tables, special function evaluation New Book, Finite Element Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics New Book, Model Emergent Dynamics in Complex Systems New Book, Preconditioning and the Conjugate Gradient Method New Book, The Time-Discrete Method of Lines for Options and Bonds New Book, Unified Transform for Boundary Value Problems SIAM Heidelberg Public Lecture, Germany, Jan 2015 Dune Course, Germany, Feb 2015 Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium, USA, Feb 2015 Optimization & Matrix Methods for Big Data, Canada, Feb 2015 IMA Flood Risk, UK, Mar 2015 Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, USA, Mar 2015 SANUM 2015, South Africa, Mar-Apr 2015 Deadlines extended, SIAM Central States Meeting, USA, Apr 2015 Parallel-in-Time Integration, Germany, May 2015 SIAM Network Science, USA, May 2015 IMA Maths in Finance, UK, Jun 2015 PETSc 20th Anniversary Conference/Tutorial, USA, Jun 2015 Preconditioning 2015,The Netherlands, Jun 2015 Conference for Nick Trefethen's 60th birthday, UK, Aug 2015 SIAM Applied Linear Algebra, USA, Oct 2015 Assistant Professor Position, NA, KTH Stockholm Postdoc Position, Numerical Methods for Sensing, ASU Postdoc Positions, Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence PhD Positions, Chalmers Univ and Univ of Gothenburg Contents, Information and Inference, 03 (4) Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing, 62 (1) Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html Submissions for NA Digest: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/na-digest/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Oleg Burdakov [log in to unmask] Date: January 15, 2015 Subject: 2013 Charles Broyden Prize The Charles Broyden prize for the best paper published in Optimization Methods and Software (OMS) in 2013 was awarded to the paper: "On stable piecewise linearization and generalized algorithmic differentiation" by Andreas Griewank that appeared in volune 28 on pages 1139-1178: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/est/charles-broyden-prize The award was established by the OMS Editorial Board and Taylor & Francis in 2009, with a cash prize of £500. The Broyden Prize Committee: Frederic Bonnans, Michael Ferris (chair), Masao Fukushima, Nickolaos Sahinidis and Ya-xiang Yuan ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bernard Beauzamy [log in to unmask] Date: January 12, 2015 Subject: Doubts about Feynman's probabilistic presentation In this article: http://scmsa.eu/archives/BB_Quantum_electrodynamics_doubts_2015_01.pdf I express some doubts about Richard Feynman's presentation of probabilities in quantum electrodynamics. All comments are most welcome. Bernard Beauzamy ------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert van de Geijn [log in to unmask] Date: January 09, 2015 Subject: LaTeX source for introductory linear algebra A student in my introductory undergraduate linear algebra course is blind. The problem is that my treatment of the subject is very "visual" (including videos), as are the notes that I wrote. She learns from math books by reading the LaTeX source. If someone happens to have LaTeX source for a set of notes or book, and that LaTeX source is relatively simple and well-organized, I believe such an extra resource would really help her out. She is a computer science student, appears to be very bright, has been reported to have talent in math, and can deal with a certain level of complexity in the notes. Kindly respond to [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert van de Geijn [log in to unmask] Date: January 04, 2015 Subject: Linear Algebra MOOC to Launch Again In Spring 2014, we offered the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled "Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers" (LAFF) via the edX platform. While it covers the same topics as do traditional introductory college linear algebra courses, we try to link abstraction in the mathematics to abstraction in algorithms and implementations. For the NA Digest community, this is most easily explained as that we tie the abstractions in the mathematics to the layering of the functionality of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS). The creation of this course was a massive undertaking that included the writing of a 900+ page set of notes (including detailed solutions to problems) and more than 270 short videos. This Spring, we will again offer this course. There are a few changes the most important one being that while we used IPython Notebooks before for the programming assignments, we will now use MATLAB. (The IPython Notebooks are still available from the first offering for those who prefer them.) MathWorks has graciously offered licenses for MATLAB to participants for the duration of the course. For more information, including reviews by participant from 2014, or to sign up for the course visit https://www.edx.org/course/linear-algebra-foundations-frontiers-utaustinx-ut-5-02x . The complete compilation of notes from 2014 can be found at http://www.ulaff.net . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Lozier [log in to unmask] Date: January 10, 2015 Subject: NIST announces DLMF Tables, special function evaluation Version 1.0 (beta) of the DLMF Standard Reference Tables web service (DLMF Tables) has been released. Its goal is to provide a standard of comparison for testing numerical software by computing, on demand, values of selected special functions to user-defined accuracy with guaranteed error bounds. DLMF Tables has the following features: 1. arguments are read from web form or uploaded file; 2. user-specified accuracy (up to 500 digits); 3. computation errors (truncation and rounding) are analyzed a priori to satisfy the required accuracy; 4. provides strict high-precision enclosures (upper/lower bounds); 5. optional round to nearest or directed roundings; 6. comparison to user-supplied function values, highlighting any differences and providing approximate relative errors. DLMF Tables is available at http://dlmftables.uantwerpen.be/. It is a result of a collaboration between the NIST Applied and Computational Mathematics Division and the University of Antwerp Computational Mathematics Research Group. The functions are keyed to http://dlmf.nist.gov/, the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. Any comments on the new service will be gratefully received at [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: January 05, 2015 Subject: New Book, Finite Element Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics Finite Element Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Guide, by Dmitri Kuzmin and Jari Hämäläinen viii + 313 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-60-0 / List Price $104.00 / SIAM Member Price $72.80 / Order Code CS14 This informal introduction to computational fluid dynamics and practical guide to numerical simulation of transport phenomena covers the derivation of the governing equations, construction of finite element approximations, and qualitative properties of numerical solutions, among other topics. To make the book accessible to readers with diverse interests and backgrounds, the authors begin at a basic level and advance to numerical tools for increasingly difficult flow problems, emphasizing practical implementation rather than mathematical theory. The text is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computational engineering. It may also be useful to physicists, computational scientists, and developers of numerical simulation software. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/CS14/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: January 05, 2015 Subject: New Book, Model Emergent Dynamics in Complex Systems Model Emergent Dynamics in Complex Systems, by A.J. Roberts xii + 748 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-55-6 / List Price $114.00 / SIAM Member Price $79.80 / Order Code MM20 Arising out of the growing interest in and applications of modern dynamical systems theory, this book explores how to derive relatively simple dynamical equations that model complex physical interactions. The author’s objectives are to use sound theory to explore algebraic techniques, develop interesting applications, and discover general modeling principles. Model Emergent Dynamics in Complex Systems unifies into one powerful and coherent approach the many varied extant methods for mathematical model reduction and approximation. Using mathematical models at various levels of resolution and complexity, the book establishes the relationships between such multiscale models and clarifying difficulties and apparent paradoxes and addresses model reduction for systems, resolves initial conditions, and illuminates control and uncertainty. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/MM20/. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: January 05, 2015 Subject: New Book, Preconditioning and the Conjugate Gradient Method Preconditioning and the Conjugate Gradient Method in the Context of Solving PDEs, by Josef Málek and Zdeněk Strakoš x + 104 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-83-9 / List Price $39.00 / SIAM Member Price $27.30 / Order Code SL01 This first title in SIAM’s new Spotlights book series is about the interplay between modeling, analysis, discretization, matrix computation, and model reduction. The book’s central concept, preconditioning of the conjugate gradient method, is traditionally developed algebraically using the preconditioned finite-dimensional algebraic system. In this text, however, preconditioning is connected to the PDE analysis, and the infinite-dimensional formulation of the conjugate gradient method and its discretization and preconditioning are linked together. This text challenges commonly held views, addresses widespread misunderstandings, and formulates thought-provoking open questions for further research. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/SL01/. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gunter H. Meyer [log in to unmask] Date: January 14, 2015 Subject: New Book, The Time-Discrete Method of Lines for Options and Bonds The Time-Discrete Method of Lines for Options and Bonds: A PDE Approach Gunter H. Meyer, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology World Scientific Publishing, January 2015, 267 pages, ISBN 978-981-4619-67-7. The book is intended for readers already engaged in or contemplating solving the pricing pdes for options and bonds. It focuses on some of the analytic and numerical complications (due to degeneracy, non-smooth data, non-linearities and infinite domains of definition) which are encountered when the equations are to be solved with finite differences. It contains a discussion of various boundary conditions which make the pricing problem well-posed, and extensive simulations with a time-discrete method of lines (Rothe's method) and front tracking which illustrate the influence of the computational domain and of the boundary conditions on prices and early exercise, particularly near expiration. Graphical and tabular numerical results are displayed for a variety of financial derivatives which may serve as benchmark solutions for competing numerical methods. The Preface and the Table of Contents may be found at: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9292#t=suppl ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: January 05, 2015 Subject: New Book, Unified Transform for Boundary Value Problems Unified Transform for Boundary Value Problems: Applications and Advances, by A. S. Fokas and B. Pelloni xii + 293 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-81-5 / List Price $94.00 / SIAM Member Price $65.80 / Order Code OT141 This book describes state-of-the-art advances and applications of the unified transform and its relation to the boundary element method. The authors present the solution of boundary value problems from several different perspectives, in particular the type of problems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs). They discuss recent applications of the unified transform to the analysis and numerical modeling of boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear PDEs and the closely related boundary element method, a well-established numerical approach for solving linear elliptic PDEs. It is intended for applied and numerical research mathematicians and scientists working on the solution of boundary value problems in physics and engineering. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/OT141/. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dr. Anja Milde [log in to unmask] Date: January 14, 2015 Subject: SIAM Heidelberg Public Lecture, Germany, Jan 2015 Public Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Martin Grötschel When: January 23, 2015 at 11:00 AM Where: IWR - Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Room 432 The Siam Chapter of Heidelberg is glad to announce the talk "Is (advanced) mathematics useful? — Ist (höhere) Mathematik nützlich?" by Prof. Martin Grötschel from Technische Universität Berlin and Zuse Institute Berlin. The speaker Prof. Grötschel is an outstanding expert in combinatorial optimization. He made seminal contributions to the Traveling Salesman Problem, cutting plane methods in mixed-integer linear optimization and graph theory. Link: http://www.siamchapter.uni-hd.de/index.php?id=40 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Bastian [log in to unmask] Date: January 13, 2015 Subject: Dune Course, Germany, Feb 2015 The Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment (DUNE) is a software framework for the numerical solution of partial differential equations with grid-based methods. Using generic programming techniques it strives for both: high flexibility (efficiency of the programmer) and high performance (efficiency of the program). DUNE provides, among other things, a large variety of local mesh refinement techniques, a scalable parallel programming model, an ample collection of finite element methods and efficient linear solvers. This one week course will provide an introduction to the most important DUNE modules and especially to DUNE-PDELab. At the end the attendees will have a solid knowledge of the simulation workflow from mesh generation and implementation of finite element and finite volume methods to visualization of the results. Topics covered are the solution of stationary and time-dependent problems, as well as local adaptivity, the use of parallel computers and the solution of non-linear PDE's and systems of PDE's. Registration deadline: Friday February 6, 2015 Dates: February 23-27, 2015 Course venue: Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 350/368 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Fee: The fee for this course is 215 EUR including course material, coffee and lunch breaks as well as course dinner on Wednesday. For registration and further information see http://conan.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/dune-workshop/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Edmond Chow [log in to unmask] Date: January 08, 2015 Subject: Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium, USA, Feb 2015 The Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium is a forum for academic and other researchers in and around the state of Georgia to meet in an informal setting, to exchange ideas, and to highlight local scientific computing research. The symposium has been held every year since 2009 and is open to the entire research community. This year, the symposium will be held on Saturday, February 28, 2015, at Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta. Invited Speakers: Yuliya Babenko, Kennesaw State University Juan Gutierrez, University of Georgia Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology Lars Ruthotto, Emory University Martin Short, Georgia Institute of Technology Xiaojing Ye, Georgia State University Participants, especially graduate students and postdocs, are encouraged to present a poster. This year there will be a poster blitz to highlight the posters. The event is free, but please register and get more information at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~echow/gscs15 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Stephen Vavasis [log in to unmask] Date: January 09, 2015 Subject: Optimization & Matrix Methods for Big Data, Canada, Feb 2015 The Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada, is hosting a workshop on Optimization & Matrix Methods for Big Data Feb 9-11 as part of its six-month thematic program on big data. For more information on the workshop, please visit: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/14-15/bigdata/optimization/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Pamela Bye [log in to unmask] Date: January 14, 2015 Subject: IMA Flood Risk, UK, Mar 2015 3rd IMA International Conference on Flood Risk 30 – 31 March 2015, Swansea University, Wales, UK Recent coastal and inland flooding events such as occurred in the UK, have highlighted the difficulties in forecasting individual and sequences of extreme events. The widespread and catastrophic flooding following the Japanese earthquake in March 2011 heightened the global public awareness of the limitations of existing flood defence infrastructure and flood warning systems. The conference will provide a forum at which engineers, mathematicians and statisticians can meet to exchange views on this important technical area. The emphasis will be on new developments in the mathematical and statistical techniques applicable for assessing flood risk. The conference will be of interest to flood defence practitioners; flood defence managers; statisticians, mathematicians and civil engineers. We welcomed contributions drawing upon diverse conceptual bases, including reliability theory, statistical analysis, mathematical modelling of flood flows, forecasting systems and techniques, and of course mathematics. Papers will be organised under four principal themes: Climate change; Computational methods in flood forecasting; Extreme events; Uncertainty and reliability Invited Speakers: Prof Hajime Mase (Kyoto University) Prof Stefan Uhlenbrook (UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands) Dr Adrián Pedrozo-Acuña (UNAM-México) For further information please visit the conference webpage: http://ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/3rd_flood_risk.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Annette Anthony [log in to unmask] Date: January 12, 2015 Subject: Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, USA, Mar 2015 Author Abstract Submission Date has been extended until January 18, 2015. The Seventeenth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods March 22 – 27, 2015 Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA Student Competition Papers January 2, 2015 Author Abstracts January 18, 2015 Early Registration March 2, 2015 Guaranteed Lodging February 21, 2015 HIGHLIGHTED TOPICS: Uncertainty Quantification; Optimization and Inverse Problems; Data Mining, Large Graphs, and Markov Chains; Nonsymmetric and Indefinite Problems; Krylov Accelerators; Hybrid Direct-Iterative Linear Solvers; Parallel Multigrid on Multicore Systems and Heterogeneous Architectures; Time Parallel Methods; Iterative Methods in Applications (e.g., Electromagnetics, Energy, Environmental, MHD, Neutronics, Transport/Reaction) Please access our website at http://grandmaster.colorado.edu/~copper/2015/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Inger Fabris-Rotelli [log in to unmask] Date: January 15, 2015 Subject: SANUM 2015, South Africa, Mar-Apr 2015 Registration for the 2015 SANUM conference is now open. The registration form is available on the website: http://www.up.ac.za/en/mathematics-and-applied- mathematics/article/1970976/sanum-2015 Looking forward to hosting you at the University of Pretoria 30 March - 1 April 2015. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Xiaoming He [log in to unmask] Date: January 09, 2015 Subject: Deadlines extended, SIAM Central States Meeting, USA, Apr 2015 The 1st Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section will be held at Missouri University of Science and Technology from April 11-12, 2015. The deadlines for mini-symposium proposals and contributed presentations/posters are extended to February 10 and March 10 respectively. For more information about this conference, please visit the conference webpage: http://siamcentral.mst.edu/ The SIAM Central States Section was formed in 2014. For more information about this new section, please visit the section webpage: http://www.siam.org/sections/central/ If you have any questions, please feel free to email [log in to unmask] or the conference organizing committee chair, Xiaoming He ([log in to unmask]). ------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Kloeppel [log in to unmask] Date: January 14, 2015 Subject: Parallel-in-Time Integration, Germany, May 2015 Registration is now open for the 4th Workshop on Parallel-in-Time Integration, Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany), May 27-29, 2015 With the ever increasing availability of distributed processing power new ways to exploit parallelism have to be found, with one emerging trend being the parallelization in the time domain. In this workshop, we want to bring together scientists working on parallel time integration methods (like Parareal, PFASST, etc.) with scientists from the areas of atmospheric and multibody dynamics. We aim at exploring similarities and mutual benefits between the more traditional multiscale/multirate/cosimulation time integration methods and the relatively new parallel-in-time algorithms. Invited Speakers: Martin Arnold - MLU Halle-Wittemberg, Germany Martin J. Gander - Universite de Geneve, Switzerland Michael L. Minion - Stanford University, US Hilary Weller - University of Reading, UK Beth Wingate - University of Exeter, UK For registration and more information visit http://www.tu-dresden.de/pint2015 Early Registration Deadline: March 27, 2015 Registration Deadline: April 24, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ali Pinar [log in to unmask] Date: January 08, 2015 Subject: SIAM Network Science, USA, May 2015 The 3rd SIAM Workshop on Network Science 2015 will be held on May 16-17, 2015, at Snowbird UT. Submissions are welcome on all aspects of rigorous computational and mathematical techniques involved in network analysis, with a particular interest in contributions in the following areas: - dynamic processes on networks and especially epidemic spreading models - higher order network analysis including topological and geometric methods for networks - applications to infrastructure and computer security networks It will be co-located with the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2015. The deadline for submissions is Jan 19. Please see http://www.siam.org/meetings/ns15/ for more details. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Pamela Bye [log in to unmask] Date: January 14, 2015 Subject: IMA Maths in Finance, UK, Jun 2015 2nd IMA Maths in Finance 18 – 19 June 2015, University of Manchester The purpose of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners interested in mathematical modelling in finance. We invite researchers whose research work contains a strong Mathematical element to attend. We have included a broad range of topics with the aim to expose participants to models, ideas and techniques that they may not be aware of, and to foster future collaborations. We will be accepting papers on the following themes: Computational Finance (high dimensional problems, simulation techniques, PDE methods) Energy Markets (market regulation and monitoring, competition and investment, commodity pricing and risk management) Risk (credit risk modelling, liquidity risk, counterparty risk) Operations Research (game theory, network optimisation, revenue management, portfolio optimisation) Real Options (competition, optimal investment) Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 150 word abstract for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 26 February 2015 by e-mail to [log in to unmask] Please state whether your title is intended for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts are expected to follow the following template: Title Contributing author(s) Initials, Surname Affiliation(s) Department, organisation. For further information on this conference, please visit the conference webpage: http://ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/maths_in_finance_2015.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Barry Smith [log in to unmask] Date: January 05, 2015 Subject: PETSc 20th Anniversary Conference/Tutorial, USA, Jun 2015 We are excited to invite you to the PETSc 20th anniversary conference and tutorial from June 15 to June 18 2015 at Argonne National Laboratory. The conference announcement and registration information can be found at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc-20. Thanks to the generosity of the Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences (CELS) directorate of Argonne, there are no registration fees, and we can provide some travel support for students, post-docs and those with limited travel budgets. Please register soon so we can include you in the program. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Wil Schilders [log in to unmask] Date: January 15, 2015 Subject: Preconditioning 2015,The Netherlands, Jun 2015 The International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications, Preconditioning 2015, is the ninth in a series of conferences that focus on preconditioning techniques in sparse matrix computation. The goal of this series of conferences is to address the complex issues related to the solution of general sparse matrix problems in large-scale real applications and in industrial settings. The speakers of this conference will discuss some of the latest developments in the field of preconditioning techniques for sparse matrix problems. The conference will allow participants to exchange findings in this area and to explore possible new directions in light of emerging paradigms, such as parallel processing and object- oriented programming. More information and a list of invited speakers can be found at http://www.win.tue.nl/precon2015/. Registration is now open, deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31, 2015. Early bird registration deadline is May 3, 2015. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Endre Suli [log in to unmask] Date: January 06, 2015 Subject: Conference for Nick Trefethen's 60th birthday, UK, Aug 2015 New Directions in Numerical Computation, University of Oxford, 25-28 August 2015: In celebration of Nick Trefethen's 60th birthday http://www2.maths.ox.ac.uk/new.direction2015/ Nick Trefethen is well-known for his work in approximation theory, pseudospectra, numerical linear algebra, and numerical complex analysis. The meeting will be an opportunity to celebrate his significant research contributions on his 60th birthday. The conference has a broad theme of new developments in all areas of numerical computation, with a special theme of algorithms for numerical computation with functions. Plenary speakers: Penny Anderson (Mathworks); Marsha Berger (NYU); Jean-Paul Berrut (Fribourgd); Folkmar Bornemann (TU Munich); Brian Davies (King's College London); Alan Edelman (MIT); Mark Embree (Virginia Tech); Bengt Fornberg (Colorado-Boulder); Anne Greenbaum (Washington); Leslie Greengard (NYU); Des Higham (Strathclyde); Nick Higham (Manchester); Randy LeVeque (Washington); Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin); Michael Overton (NYU); Ian Sloan (New South Wales); Gil Strang (MIT); Andrew Stuart (Warwick); Andy Wathen (Oxford); Andre Weideman (Stellenbosch). REGISTRATION, from the webpage: http://www2.maths.ox.ac.uk/new.direction2015/Registration/ IMPORTANT DATES 20th January 2015: Registration deadline for contributed talks 25th-28th August 2015: Conference dates 27th August 2015: Banquet in Balliol College ------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicole Erle [log in to unmask] Date: January 09, 2015 Subject: SIAM Applied Linear Algebra, USA, Oct 2015 Conference Name:SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA October 26-30, 2015 The Call for Papers for this conference is now available. Please visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/la15/ for more information. INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS Haim Avron, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Raymond Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Geir Dahl, University of Oslo, Norway Zlatko Drmac, University of Zagreb, Croatia Howard Elman, University of Maryland, USA Maryam Fazel, University of Washington, USA Melina Freitag, University of Bath, United Kingdom Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Volker Mehrmann, TU Berlin, Germany Michael Overton, New York University, USA Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Eugene Tyrtyshnikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia March 30, 2015: Minisymposium proposals April 27, 2015: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers April 27, 2015: Contributed poster presentation abstracts April 17, 2015: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications Twitter hashtag: #SIAMLA15 Contact SIAM Conference Department at [log in to unmask] with any questions about the conference. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Anna-Karin Tornberg [log in to unmask] Date: January 12, 2015 Subject: Assistant Professor Position, NA, KTH Stockholm A position as Assistant professor in Numerical Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden is now open. The deadline for application is February 2, 2015. The subject of the position concerns development, analysis and computer implementation of computational methods, with emphasis on modeling and simulation of systems within engineering and science. Particular focus is put on numerical solution of partial differential equations and/or stochastic differential equations in addition to numerical linear algebra. The ad can be found in english at the following link: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:46588/where:4/ and in Swedish: https://www.kth.se/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:46588/where:4/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Rodrigo Platte [log in to unmask] Date: January 09, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Position, Numerical Methods for Sensing, ASU The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (SoMSS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate with an anticipated start date of August 2015. This is a non-tenure-track, benefits-eligible, year-to-year appointment, renewable annually for up to three academic years contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of resources, and the needs of the unit. Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. or equivalent by the time of appointment in the mathematical sciences, engineering, or a closely related field; and the potential for excellent teaching and research. Desired qualifications include knowledge of radar technologies, such as synthetic aperture radar; and a solid background in signal processing, in particular Fourier Analysis. Knowledge of frames, regularization techniques, and numerical analysis is also desirable. Teaching load is at the discretion of the director, but is typically two courses per year. Applications must be submitted online through mathjobs at https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/6901 and must include the following: 1) A cover letter 2) A curriculum vitae 3) A personal statement addressing the candidate's research program 4) A statement of teaching experience and philosophy 5) At least three letters of recommendation that must be submitted at the mathjobs site, including one that addresses teaching. Initial review of applications will begin on February 6th, 2015; if not filled, every week thereafter until the search is closed. A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence, Münster, Germany [log in to unmask] Date: January 13, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Positions, Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence The Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence (CiM) is offering Postdoctoral Positions in any research area represented in CiM for the development and implementation of individual research projects. The fellowship covers a TV L 13-position for 2 years plus 12.000 € per year to cover consumables and travel costs. Research projects should be developed together with the host laboratory; see www.cells-in-motion.com for research areas and associated principal investigators. Research fields relevant to the CiM-cluster include biophysical aspects of cell dynamics, cell-cell and/or cell-matrix interactions, cell migration and /or differentiation, mathematical modelling of biological systems, protein and/or lipid biochemistry and biophysics, intracellular dynamics, and high resolution optical and non-optical imaging to study cell biology. Excellent researchers with not more than 2 years of postdoctoral experience, who provide the CiM-cluster with new expertise, models and/or techniques and possess a capacity for teamwork, are invited to submit their CV, list of publications, two reference letters and the completed application form to [log in to unmask] by 31st March 2015. Only applications using the template provided on our Homepage will be considered, each applicant can submit only one application. A letter of support written by the head of the host CiM lab is mandatory. We encourage interested researchers to contact their favoured host labs as soon as possible for detailed discussion of the research project. The Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence uniquely merges existing excellence at the University of Münster in cell biology and molecular imaging and integrates internationally visible interdisciplinary networks between the medical, natural sciences and mathematical faculties as well as the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine. For more information please visit http://www.cells-in-motion.com . Contact: Careers in Motion Centre, Dr. Julia Meskauskas, [log in to unmask] . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Stig Larsson [log in to unmask] Date: January 13, 2015 Subject: PhD Positions, Chalmers Univ and Univ of Gothenburg The Mathematical Sciences Department of Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg invites applications for a number of PhD positions in all areas of mathematics and mathematical statistics. Deadline for applications: February 15, 2015.9 For more information follow the link http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx and look up the two advertisements: Ref. No. 20140554 PhD student positions in mathematics Ref. No. 20140530 PhD student positions in mathematical statistics Some positions are dedicated to specific research projects and some are open to all research areas in the department, including numerical analysis. For numerical analysis, note in particular the position of Anders Logg in mathematics and the position of Annika Lang in mathematical statistics. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Suzanne Eves [log in to unmask] Date: January 13, 2015 Subject: Contents, Information and Inference, 03 (4) Contents, Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, 03(4) Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA All Content Free in 2015 Links to all articles in this issue are available online at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5984/3 Scaling law for recovering the sparsest element in a subspace, Laurent Demanet and Paul Hand Persistent homology transform for modeling shapes and surfaces, Katharine Turner, Sayan Mukherjee, and Doug M. Boyer Deterministic Bayesian information fusion and the analysis of its performance, Gaurav Thakur ------------------------------------------------------- From: Chi-Wang Shu [log in to unmask] Date: January 05, 2015 Subject: Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing, 62 (1) Journal of Scientific Computing http://www.springeronline.com/journal/10915 Volume 62, Number 1, January 2015 Numerical Approximation of the Singularly Perturbed Heat Equation in a Circle, Youngjoon Hong, pp.1-24. A High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Discretization with Multiwavelet-Based Grid Adaptation for Compressible Flows, Nils Gerhard, Francesca Iacono, Georg May, Siegfried Muller and Roland Schafer, pp.25-52. A Sharp-Interface Active Penalty Method for the Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations, D. Shirokoff and J.-C. Nave, 53-77. Finite Difference Schemes for the Cauchy–Navier Equations of Elasticity with Variable Coefficients, Bernard Bialecki and Andreas Karageorghis, pp.78-121. Superconvergence Analysis for Linear Tetrahedral Edge Elements, Yunqing Huang, Jichun Li, Chao Wu and Wei Yang, pp.122-145. Decay Properties for the Numerical Solutions of a Partial Differential Equation with Memory, Da Xu, pp.146-178. A Unified Mortar Condition for Nonconforming Finite Elements, Chunmei Wang, Shangyou Zhang and Jinru Chen, pp.179-197. A Third Order Fast Sweeping Method with Linear Computational Complexity for Eikonal Equations, Liang Wu and Yong-Tao Zhang, pp.198-229. H2-Stability of the First Order Fully Discrete Schemes for the Time-Dependent Navier–Stokes Equations, Yinnian He, Pengzhan Huang and Xinlong Feng, pp.230-264. The Extrapolated Crank–Nicolson Orthogonal Spline Collocation Method for a Quasilinear Parabolic Problem with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions, B. Bialecki, G. Fairweather and J.C. Lopez-Marcos, pp.265-283. The Lower/Upper Bound Property of the Crouzeix–Raviart Element Eigenvalues on Adaptive Meshes, Yidu Yang, Jiayu Han, Hai Bi and Yuanyuan Yu, pp.284-299. Numerical Caputo Differentiation by Radial Basis Functions, Ming Li, Yujiao Wang and Leevan Ling, pp.300-315. ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************